Man, oh man, doesn’t it feel right to be a Middle East woman nowadays — figuratively speaking. What I’m referring to is when Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, announced Sept. 25 that the women of his country have the right to vote and stand in elections, an issue which has been going on in that country for almost a half a century now.
A friend of mine recently signed up to be a subject in a sleep deprivation study. I told him he’s a stronger man than I am, and also crazy. For me, sleep loss leads to stress and a bad mood, so I won’t be volunteering myself for testing anytime soon.
Every year, department stores, pharmacies and even college campuses turn ‘pink’ with companies large and small slapping a ribbon on their products and feigning some interest in breast cancer awareness to woo compassionate consumers. We are encouraged to buy this or that, to wear this ribbon or this pink whatever in order to “support a cure.” As someone who has seen devastating effects of breast cancer firsthand, it has all gotten to be too much.
I always have found the intersection between business and politics fascinating. Most people don’t. Most people think of this link as an unhealthy combination of greed and political self-interest. They assume nothing meaningful can be learned from examining such a relationship.
It pains me knowing they are talking about my former classmates, high school teachers and best friends. How could my soft-spoken Arabic friends be connected to wars, bombings and terrorist threats? I see the looks on people’s faces when I mention my friends Omar, Yousif and Amir. I can tell what they’re thinking. To put it lightly, it’s unjust.
Have you ever wondered if what you watch on television or in movies has any semblance of reality? We are deluged with every form of reality TV, but do you ever contemplate if Kim Kardashian or “Big Brother” or “Survivor” has any place outside of the fantasy realm?
The State News recently published a story about a retiring photography professor, Professor Danny Guthrie and his latest project photographing himself with his current and former students as well as his colleagues. Guthrie specifically comments on these photos, “(The photographs are) about my loss of youth and impending doom,” he said. “Once you give up when you get older, you don’t live in a sexual arena anymore.” This quote, however, did not protect him from attacks from faculty as well as students — specifically Mitch Goldsmith, who wrote a scathing column painting Guthrie as a sick older professor exploiting his students — somehow intimidating or forcing his female students to pose with him.
With the poor state of the national economy, it is only natural that environmentalism has taken a backseat in the national discourse.
I recently came across a Tumblr blog, msufact.tumblr.com, that posts pictures, facts and histories of many tradition and buildings on campus.
In the 2011-12 season-to-date Nielsen network television ratings, eight of the top 20 most-watched shows deal with solving crime. From “NCIS” at No.
I didn’t expect the presidential hopefuls to mention the Occupy Wall Street movement because of the general conservative disregard for the movement as a whole. However, the issues of a lack of middle-class jobs and an inability of recent graduates to pay off student loans without those jobs is a completely separate issue.
If the Tea Party movement can be associated with elderly ultra-conservative voters, the Occupy Wall Street movement sweeping major cities across the country can be attributed to the young far left, as the majority of those protesting are in their 20s.
This column is not meant to be particularly cruel or nasty against any one professor, but to be a plea, a plea for this professor to stop. Academic or personal freedoms stop when those freedoms encroach upon the rights of others.
Sitting in Noodles & Company in front of my mac and cheese and in the middle of a meeting, I read the text message my mom sent: “My grandmother passed away :(.” Buica, as we used to call her, lived in Romania.
For college students who are constantly stressed with academic, professional and social pressures, it comes as a welcome outlet to reduce stress and improve moods. Weekend hours are reduced to accommodate for fewer exercise fiends, but the weekend should be the best time to get in a good workout.
Straddling the top two steps of the wood porch of my parent’s house the summer of 1963, I wondered aloud, “Am I ever going to hate any type of music as much as my parents hate rock ‘n’ roll?” The answer, nearly 50 years later, is yes and no. Yes, because at one time or another since then, I have thought I absolutely hated country music, classical music, rap, hip-hop, alternative music and grunge rock.
A friend recently asked me which season is my favorite. My response was “Fall, of course.” Aghast, she replied, “Why?
More than the inauguration of President John Kennedy, “West Side Story,” the Freedom Riders, Roger Maris’s 61 home runs and the Peace Corps, what was most memorable about 1961 was a small but enduring decision I made at the beginning of my senior year in college.
The need for civility in politics has been widely discussed in the media. It is an important topic that is relevant to people across the political spectrum. But although tone and civility are important in civil discourse, I would argue both parties have failed to provide an element that is just as important to our public debates: substance specific to our times.
Have you ever had something in life which bothered you so much that even when you tried solving this problem, nothing came of it because of the severity of this dilemma?